My first guest on the podcast is Kim Hoque. He’s a professor of Human Resources Management and Vice Dean (People and Culture) at King’s Business School in London. Kim is also one of the UK’s leading scholars on disability and employment. In 2013 he co-founded the Disability@Work research group and in 2021, along with leading charities and trade unions, he co-founded the Disability Employment Charter.

I speak to Kim about the process of establishing the disability charter but we kick off our conversation by talking about his latest research into the effectiveness (or rather ineffectiveness) of the UK Government’s Disability Confident Scheme. His research offers a pretty scathing assessment of a national accreditation system that is supposed to help level the playing field for workers with a disability but which, in reality, does little to lower the barriers to employment or move the dial forward when it comes to closing the disability employment gap.

References

Disability at Work Research Group

Disability Employment Charter

Disability Confident Scheme Research

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Host: Dr Peter Ghin

We're excited to launch our little podcast which explores life at the intersection of chronic illness/disability and work! The first season of Bodies @ Work showcases interviews with researchers and other stellar guests, who are doing super interesting work to understand the impact of disabling health conditions in the workplace, and what we can do to achieve better outcomes for employees and their employers.

So whether you’re researcher, a public policy person, a health practitioner, an employer, an advocate, a person with lived experience of a disabling health condition, or all of the above, we hope this podcast informs, entertains, and broadens your mind about an issue that effects millions of workers (and the people that employ them) all around the world.

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